MIDDLE EAST: I Have Returned

In Damascus last week, two Chevrolet
pickup trucks and two black sedans pulled up before a plaster and stone
bungalow. Arab soldiers piled in bedrolls, crates, map rolls. Then a
redhaired, blue-eyed man, who looked more German than Arab,* climbed
into one of the sedans. The convoy filed out of Damascus, swung
southward into Palestine. The Teutonic-looking man borrowed a phrase
from General Douglas Mac Arthur. Said he: "I have returned." Ahead of
Fawzi Bey Kawukji had come some 10,000 Arab volunteers. About one
thousand more are entering each week. The Arab...